{"id":113,"date":"2011-01-05T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2011-03-25T23:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T03:54:32","slug":"can-you-spare-5-this-month-for-the-mda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbmt.MyCustomData.com\/blog\/index.php\/can-you-spare-5-this-month-for-the-mda\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you spare $5 this month?  for the MDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little late posting this one today,&nbsp;&nbsp;due to a doctor&#8217;s appointment, my crappy memory, and an inability to plan properly, but hopefully I&#8217;m not too late to enlist a few people.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t already know what this is about, please check <a href=\"http:\/\/tmbmt.livejournal.com\/27140.html\">last month&#8217;s post<\/a>&nbsp;for a full description of what I&#8217;m doing here and why.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"mda\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.mdausa.org\/donate\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Help Fight Muscular Dystrophy\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.mdausa.org\/donate\/resources\/main\/images\/giftform_leftimg.jpg\" \/><\/a>This month, I&#8217;m inviting everyone to join me in giving just $5 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. &nbsp;I&#8217;m choosing them this month for personal reasons. &nbsp;If you know me very well you&#8217;ll know that I have a peripheral neuropathy, which just happens to be one of the neuro-muscular disorders that the MDA helps with aside from muscular dystrophies. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been receiving services from the MDA on and off for most of my life. &nbsp;They run some of the best clinics in the nation for neuro-muscular disorders, they have great programs to help with all aspects of dealing with living with disorders like mine, and they&#8217;ve been nothing but helpful when I&#8217;ve needed them. &nbsp;They also fund massive amounts of research to help improve the lives of those of us with all sorts of neuro-muscular diseases.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the money to give to them like I&#8217;d like to, but I can give up one meal this month and give $5. &nbsp;$5 might not seem a lot, but if I can give $5, and you can give $5 (or $1, or $2, or $20), and some of your friends can join us as well, pretty soon we may be able to give enough to make a real difference. &nbsp;So if you&#8217;re able to give, you can do so through the link here:&nbsp;<br \/><a target=\"mda\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.mdausa.org\/donate\/\"><br \/>https:\/\/secure.mdausa.org\/donate\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get anything out of this, and I won&#8217;t get a notification of your donation, but I&#8217;d love to hear from you if you were able to help out. &nbsp;Just drop me a note here, or at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/5-on-5\/182008281815475?ref=sgm#!\/pages\/5-on-5\/182008281815475\">Facebook group<\/a>, and let us know that you&#8217;ve joined in. &nbsp;I&#8217;ll be back with a different charity next month. &nbsp;If you have any suggestions please feel free to leave a note about that as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little late posting this one today,&nbsp;&nbsp;due to a doctor&#8217;s appointment, my crappy memory, and an inability to plan properly, but hopefully I&#8217;m not too late to enlist a few people. 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